Foursquare Discounts, Mailbox, Gamification & Heroic Pigs: the Social 6 for 2/26/13
Incredibly busy day all around! The social sharing around my links was probably 250% what it was on a normal day. Is there something in the water?
Today we had plenty of great news, including surprisingly stats about the future of gamification, some viral marketing that tricked quite a few of us, and how not everyone is jumping on the Mailbox bandwagon (I personally like it, but I'm not bowing at its altar). Here's your Social 6:
#6: Foursquare Partners with Visa, MasterCard for Discounts (Ad Age)
#5: Really Cute, but Totally Faked (New York Times)
#4: After Waiting Two Weeks For Mailbox, The Massively Hyped Email App, I Deleted It After Two Days (Business Insider)
#3: 50% of companies will gamify innovation by 2015 (MarketingMag AU)
#2: How I Got @JCrew to Start Tweeting Again (Likeable Media blog)
#1: LinkedIn compiles testimonials from 70 leaders in its latest series (LinkedIn)
The Onion Missteps, Running Apps, Facebook Ad Changes, Twitter Hacks: the Social 6 for 2/25/13
Yesterday was an action-packed day, if you're a social media nerd like me. Enough so that plenty of great contestants didn't get onto the list. The stories left standing, of course, make up a very diverse Social 6, from a rundown of running apps, to Netflix's use of analytics to power their programming, to a rare apology from The Onion regarding an unfortunate joke aimed at a nine year-old. Here's your Social 6:
#6: What real-time marketers should learn from Frost Mages (Christopher S. Penn blog)
#5: Twitter Hackings Put Focus on Security for Brands (New York Times)
#4: Three Running Apps to Shake Up Your Routine (AllThingsD)
#3: The Onion apologizes for Quvenzhané Wallis Comment (Mashable)
#2: Netflix is using Big Data to ensure House of Cards' popularity (New York Times)
#1: Facebook is decreasing image size for non-social page post ads. Here's what you need to know (Sprout Social blog)
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